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Chicago has always defied kidnappings of our neighbors - Chicago Reader Even after the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, local officials and everyday people resisted the legalized abductions of men, women, and children who had escaped slavery

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Frank and Mary’s Tavern closes after 54 years Frank and Mary’s Tavern closes after 54 years for renovations under new owners, and Monday Night Foodball moves to Thattu.

Frank and Mary’s Tavern closes after more than half a century

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Chicago’s Damen Silos demolition resumes—activists demand more robust oversight - Chicago Reader For months, activists have been surveilling the Damen Silos demolition to ensure that environmental protection measures are in place and enforced.

Chicago’s Damen Silos demolition resumes—activists demand more robust oversight

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Rapper Mach-Hommy takes charge of his own destiny  - Chicago Reader Mach-Hommy imbues his impressive body of work—24 studio albums on top of an exhausting amount of EPs and singles—with pointed lyrics about the social and political effects of empire.

Rapper Mach-Hommy takes charge of his own destiny 

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New York indie rockers Frog are on a roll with their second album of 2025 - Chicago Reader Frog have shifted to a more tossed-off approach for the two albums they released this year: February’s 1,000 Variations and September’s The Count.

New York indie rockers Frog are on a roll with their second album of 2025

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Songwriter, memoirist, and resident of the world Amy Rigby returns with a new book - Chicago Reader Amy Rigby sings from plenty of experience: she has been in bands since the 1970s, when she played country music in New York City punk clubs with the Last Roundup.

Songwriter, memoirist, and resident of the world Amy Rigby returns with a new book

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Pachyman and Mndsgn coheadline an imaginative, rhythmic tour - Chicago Reader Pachy Garcia puts a lot of work into the music he makes as Pachyman, but it feels as effortless as relaxing on the beach.

Pachyman and Mndsgn coheadline an imaginative, rhythmic tour

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Home Is Where let their rage smolder on Hunting Season - Chicago Reader The energy that propelled fifth-wave emo from in-scene meme to crossover indie-rock phenomenon in 2020 evaporated over the past couple years, but scene leaders Home Is Where have forged ahead with nary a hiccup.

Home Is Where let their rage smolder on Hunting Season

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Review: It’s Just a Fucking Opening - Chicago Reader With the short film It’s Just a Fucking Opening, Jupiter Magazine pushes against the strictures of criticism.

Review: It’s Just a Fucking Opening

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Review: After the Hunt - Chicago Reader Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt is far too comfortably self-satisfied, resulting in something that ends up quite toothless.

Review: After the Hunt

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Review: Good Boy - Chicago Reader Given its fairly standard horror movie narrative, Alex Cannon and Ben Leonberg's Good Boy is better than it needs to be.

Review: Good Boy

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Review: Tron: Ares - Chicago Reader Hopefully Tron: Ares is enjoyable enough for some stoned teens to remember fondly, because no one else will.

Review: Tron: Ares

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Review: Peacock - Chicago Reader Bernhard Wenger’s dry, deadpan Peacock has an effective “Austrian sense for tragedy.”

Review: Peacock

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Chicago Public Media and Chicago Reader launch six-month local media sales and sponsorship pilot Partnership brings together local independent media to support one another and sustain community storytelling.

Chicago Public Media and Chicago Reader launch six-month local media sales and sponsorship pilot

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Illinois rideshare drivers organize for labor rights - Chicago Reader Uber and Lyft drivers are joining together to fight for better working conditions.

Illinois rideshare drivers organize for labor rights

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Darien Williams, concert booker with Meanie Productions - Chicago Reader Darien Williams follows the rhythms of a musical life. Before his first birthday, he was already keeping time to songs he heard, and his parents eventually enrolled him in drum lessons. In junior high, his love of drumming became a love of jazz music, which carried him into his first year at Roosevelt University in […]

Darien Williams, concert booker with Meanie Productions

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Chicago Reader Volume 55, Number 2 Chicago Reader print issue of October 9, 2025 (Volume 55, Number 2).

Chicago Reader Volume 55, Number 2

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Southeast Spotlight: Kreating Young Minds Academy - Chicago Reader Cultivating curiosity, imagination, and confidence for young children.

Protected: Southeast Spotlight: Kreating Young Minds Academy

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Beneath the surface - Chicago Reader After a storm, Chicago streets transform. Water rushes through alleys and basements begin to seep. The sewers can’t drink it all, so if the water doesn’t back up into basements, it spills into the river. Even a light rain creates puddles that swallow curbs, because the infrastructure’s job is to protect us from sewage flooding, […]

Beneath the surface

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The 61st Chicago International Film Festival meets the moment - Chicago Reader In a fractured time, global conversation becomes the 2025 Chicago International Film Festival's most radical act.

The 61st Chicago International Film Festival meets the moment

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Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community

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Her grandmother's hands - Chicago Reader Chances are, you’ve seen the graphic design or branding work of Summer Coleman, but you may be unfamiliar with her art practice.

Her grandmother’s hands

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Adventurous local label Amalgam throws itself a tenth birthday party - Chicago Reader Adventurous local label Amalgam throws itself a tenth birthday party, queer-fronted maqam ensemble Tayf honor the late Ziad Rahbani, and more.

Adventurous local label Amalgam throws itself a tenth birthday party

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Virgin martyrs - Chicago Reader Subtext Studio Theatre's Saving Myself is a sharp and thoughtful comedy about three adolescent girls battling it out at a church retreat.

Virgin martyrs

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Reader Bites: Chai leche flan doughnut at Sarima Cafe - Chicago Reader Fear melts once you submit to the inevitable truth: You don’t consume the chai leche flan doughnut at Sarima Cafe. It consumes you.

Chai leche flan doughnut at Sarima Cafe

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DREAM deferred - Chicago Reader A teenage girl, inspired by the story of Don Quixote, tries to give up her identity to an undocumented friend in Dulcci.

DREAM deferred

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Deconstructing Medusa - Chicago Reader The Impostors look at the myth of the fearsome snake-haired woman through literal and metaphorical ideas of sacrifice in Monstrous.

Deconstructing Medusa

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The Moviegoer: What’s up, Doc? - Chicago Reader The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer.

What’s up, Doc?

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